The big lie continues. The emails weren’t stolen. They were leaked by an unhappy programmer, probably the one who had to document the computer code that allegedly “proved” global warming and who discovered that the work wouldn’t pass scrutiny in a programming 101 class, because of all the ad hoc adjustments to the data to make the temperature slope appear to be greater than it actually is.
The source code in that east Anglican leak was severely obfuscated by the tight coupling to data as you pointed out. Since the climategate data dump I have been getting notification from their list serve. If you dig deeply into that original project you can find some amateur PowerPoint trying to assert the global warming argument. I need to crack open their latest release and then hunt down this current data dump. I have been finding that almost nobody understands these various technologies enough to argue one way or the other. Apparently none of the politicians in Congress do either..